South Australia. Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 14 February 1840; - for, Returns of the Quantity of Land in South Australia sold by the Colonization Commissioners since the 5th day of May 1835 ...
[London], 'Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed', 10 April 1840.
Foolscap folio, 32 pages (last one a docket) with numerous tables and lists.
Sewn, as issued (the thread recently renewed, and now holding a place a piece of archival paper protecting the spine); all edges uncut; first and last pages unevenly tanned and lightly foxed; leading edge of the first leaf lightly chipped; light tidemark to the top and bottom margins of four consecutive leaves; a very good copy.
Great Britain and Ireland Parliamentary Paper Number 223 of 1840. The full title runs to 23 lines, enumerating ten separate returns. 'Contains valuable information with respect to many South Australian subjects' (Ferguson), but the perennial value of this paper is the headline one, which runs to eleven pages. Its complete title is 'A Return of the Quantity of Land in South Australia sold by the Colonization Commissioners since the 5th day of May 1835:- Of the Amount of Money paid for the same in London, and the Names of the Purchasers:- Of the Amount of Money paid to Agents in England and Scotland, as Commission on Sales effected through their Agency, specifying the Name of the Agent, and the Name of the Purchaser on whose Purchase Commission has been charged'. Ferguson 3002.
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